Volume 2 Number 2 .Published in the interest of personnel at Fort Leonard Wood. Thursday, January 14, 1988 1 Volume 2 Number 2 Published in the Interest of personnel at Fort Leonard Wood, Thursday, January 14, 1988 News briefs 104 soldiers SGM, CSM promotion, selection board KING SERVICE: A Department of the Board Sergeants major, to decline except for extreme Command sergeants they feel are important to A special service will convene Feb. 23 at the promotable master hardship reasons. major, sergeants major and their consideration by the commemorating Dr. Enlisted Records and sergeants and master These statements are used promotable master board. Address letters to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Evaluation Center, Fort sergeants eligible for only to assemble records of sergeants with basic active President, CSM-SGM birthday will be conducted Benjamin Harrison, Ind., to sergeant major, with basic soldiers who want to be service dates of Feb. 23, 1960, Selection-Promotion Board, at 11 a.m. Monday at the consider soldiers for active service dates not considered for command or later are eligible for USAEREC, ATTN: Main Post Chapel. Dr. selection as command earlier than Feb. 23, 1962, sergeant major selection. Qualitative Management PCREBA, Fort Benjamin Fred Sykes from Harper sergeants major, and for and dates of birth not earlier They are not filed in soldiers' Program consideration. Harrison, Ind., 46249-5301. Dental Clinic will be the promotion to sergeant than Feb. 23, 1962, and Feb. official Military Personnel Master sergeants with dates Any letter must contain the guest speaker. Special major. 23, 1937, are eligible for Files, and are not seen by of rank of July 31, 1985, or soldier's signature and music will be provided by selection consideration to board members. earlier and basic active complete social security the Lieber Heights Choir. According to personnel command sergeant major. Master sergeants who service dates of Feb. 23, 1960, number, and must arrive by The public is invited to the records section, AG division There are several ex- decline command sergeant or later, are also eligible. Feb. 12. Letters to the board postwide service. personnel, 104 soldiers from ceptions, so soldiers who major consideration will still EREC requires one set of president, and any en- Fort Wood's major com- meet the above requirements be eligible for sergeant originals or DA Forms 2A closures, become part of the BUS SERVICE: mands have completed should check their full major consideration. and 2-1 for each soldier board record and are not A commuter bus service packets for review by the eligibility with their per- Master sergeants with a eligible for consideration in used to update the Official from Rolla, Mo., will begin selection-promotion board. sonnel service centers. date of rank of July 31, 1985, any category by this board. Military Personnel File. Feb. 1. The cost will be $25 or earlier, and basic active- Soldiers should correct "The most important thing for a weekly pass or $6 per The board will also con- All soldiers in the zone for enlisted service dates of July conflicting data between eligible soldiers can do is day if paid on a daily sider soldiers for retention consideration for command 1, 1978, and earlier, are their DA Forms 2A and 2-1 review their DA Forms 2A basis. beyond 30 years and will sergeant major must state eligible for consideration for before sending them, and and 2-1," said SGM Larry J. Vandalia Bus Lines asks review records of soldiers for whether they will accept or promotion to sergeant must verify that the in- Ward, post Adjutant General that persons who wish the possible elimination under decline selection. Once major. Again, there are formation on them is com- Division sergeant major. service or have questions, the Qualitative Management selected for command exceptions, so check with plete and correct. "The second thing they need call 1-800-542-4287. Program, according to sergeant major positions, local personnel service Eligible soldiers may write to do is be sure they have an It is expected that personnel officials. soldiers will not be permitted centers. letters concerning matters updated DA photo." commuter service from Lebanon, Mo., will begin about mid-February and from Dixon, Mo., a few Finance moves, weeks later. CONTEST: renovates office ?i "Peace With Freedom" will be the theme for the The Finance and Ac- building 407; Civilian Pay, annual essay contest counting Division is tem- building 410; and Central sponsored by the porarily relocating to the Accounting Office, building Freedoms Foundation at 1300 area while building 408 411. Valley Forge along with is being renovated. The the Pennsylvania renovation will last about Due to limited availability Department of the eight months. of phone lines in the 1300 Military Order of the area, customers may ex- Purple Heart. The temporary finance perience more difficulty in The National Awards offices, buildings, 1367, 1368, contacting FAD sections. Program is for ser- 1371 and 1372, are on Pine Dates sections will move, I .. Komi vicemen and women on Street past the post museum. office locations and phone $. active duty and for those The move date is the only serving in reserve, date sections within FAD will numbers follow: Jan. 19, Reserve Officer Training be closed for other than chief, Military Pay Section, T Corps and Junior ROTC emergency service. second floor, building 1367. .:: components to encourage Disbursing service will be 368-5714; Control Section, them to think about available in building 1368 second floor, 1372, 368-5414; freedom. beginning Jan. 21 for and Determination and Entries must be post- military pay generated cash Processing, first floor, 1372, marked by May 1, 1988, to payments. Cash collections 368-3416; Jan. 20, Pay-Exam Awards Department, will continue at building 408 Branch, second floor, 1367, Going up Freedoms Foundation at until Jan. 25, when the sec- 368-5714; chief, Finance Valley Forge, PO Box tion will move to building Services, first floor, 1371, 368- Construction of the Gen. Hoge Hall good," says Col. Harold Beardslee, 6809. 1368. 8419; Pay Inquiries Section, (headquarters building) and the deputy assistant commandant of Permanent Party and PRIMARY Unaffected by the move is Gen. George Lincoln Hall the engineer school. (Photo by (academic building) DATES: In and Out Processing, See "Finance" is "going Dennis Baker) great as long as the weather stays Presidential primary building 315; Accounting, Continued on Page 4 dates in February are New Hampshire, Feb. 16, and South Dakota, Feb. 23. Presidential primary Weather forecasting at Forney Airfield service for post dates for March include: Vermont, March 1; South By Eric Cramer "Our number one job is to wind direction and other post climatological in- systems. We can also get Carolina (Republican GUIDON staff writer provide local weather con- factors important to aircraft formation on annual weather forecasts from Fort Riley, only), March 5; Alabama, ditions to the airfield," says coming to and leaving the trends that helps post and Fort Rucker.'".. Arkansas, Florida, There is a useful Southern George Wright, supervisor airfield." directorates determine when Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri item, sometimes for Operating Location A, Other services the weather to turn on heating and air Detachment Louisiana, Maryland, forgotten today, called an 8, 5th Weather station provides include conditioning and other Wright stressed that Fort Massachusetts , Ozark weather rock. The Squadron, United States Air issuing weather advisories weather related power uses, Wood citizens wanting Mississippi, Missouri, purpose of a weather rock is Force. about the wind chill factor in according to Wright. current weather conditions North Carolina, to inform its owner of local The weather station at winter and the wet bulb get them by calling 368-5151. Oklahoma, Rhode Island, weather conditions. The Forney is a small operation global temperature in "The one thing we don't do Forecasts are available at 7 Tennessee, Texas and weather concious owner sets with three civilians and one summer. much is forecast the a.m., 12 p.m., and 5 p.m. Virginia, March 8; Illinois, the rock outside a convenient military maintenance per- "The mission of this post is weather," said Wright. "We Monday through Friday at March 15; Puerto Rico, window and watches it. If the son. training, and it's important can get weather. forecasts, 368-4444. Weekend forecasts March 20, and Con- rock is wet, it's rainy. If the "Our main unit is at Fort that the units get information we can get information on are available at 7 a.m. and necticut, March 29. rock is white, it's snowy. If Riley, Kan., and we just to protect the soldiers being the weather at various noon Saturdays, and noon State primary dates in the rock is gone, it's windy. operate here as a service to trained from the weather. locations from our computer and 5p.m. Sundays. March are: Arkansas, The weather rock, though the airfield, which the Army We check the wind chill Maryland, Massachusetts, inexpensive, accurate and pays for," said Wright. factor every hour when the Pretransition program briefing for soldiers Mississippi and Texas, maintenance free, isn't "Our job is to make sur- temperature is below 40 face observations," March 8, and Illinois, accurate enough to help he degrees Fahrenheit, and The next Pretransition This is a mandatory continues, "We March 15. No state aircraft. That's why we need use our every half hour during ex- Services Program will be briefing for soldiers who are primaries are set for an Air Force weather unit at equipment to check the treme conditions," Wright conducted from 7:30 a.m. to due for transition (not Fort Leonard February. Wood's Forney ceiling of the cloud cover, the said.